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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0670801062. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, one minor book flaw: a short remainder mark on the bottom edge, the binding is tight and clean and the contents are fine, the jacket is also in nice shape with just a hint of fading on the spine and some rubbing to the glossy surface, the jacket is clean and presentable, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "This anthology tries to record what the word 'war' became for the millions in Europe who fought in it, observed it and felt impelled to write down some response to it; 620 pages.
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New York. 1989. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670801062. Edited and with an introduction by Jon Glover and Jon Silkin. 620 pages. hardcover. Cover painting ‘Heavy Artillery' by Colin Gill in the Imperial War Museum. keywords: Literature WORLD WAR I Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER-'The war? Until last month it was nothing but a word, enormous, stretching across the pages of the lethargic newspapers of summer. ' So wrote Colette in the summer of 1914. This anthology tries to record what the word 'war' became for the millions in Europe who fought in it, observed it and felt impelled to write down some response to it. As the editors say in their introduction 'The war was, at least in part, a drama of language. ‘These examples from the work of more than a hundred writers show how they struggled to find the words for what 'actually happened'. When we think of literary responses to the Great War, poems by Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon and Graves come to mind. Yet these poems are often complemented by their authors' prose writing. Letters and autobiographies, in which they deal openly with the complex issues raised by their involvement in war, are included here. But this anthology also reminds us of the great achievements of those in Britain, Europe and America whose chief commitment was to prose. In choosing excerpts from letters, various forms of autobiography and great works of fiction Glover and Silkin have placed side by side passages from 'bestsellers' (All Quiet on the Western Front, Goodbye to All That) and the little-known (Duhamel's The New Book of Martyrs, Frank's Carl and Anna). There are fascinating views of wartime experience from artists and writers not usually associated with the war (Joseph Conrad, Edmund Wilson; Stanley Spencer, Oscar Kokoschka) as well as first-hand and imaginative reactions from women (Colette, Vera Brittain, Edith Wharton and Rosa Luxemburg). There are translations of German writers (Alverdes, Renn, Glaeser) who gained the respect of English readers in the decades immediately after the war but who have been largely forgotten since. We are also reminded that people in parts of the world as distant as the Altai Mountains (Stephen Graham) and rural America (Willa Cather) were affected. This anthology offers a new focus on writing from one of the great turning points in twentieth-century culture and should serve for years to come as a checklist of some of the most interesting prose that emerged from 'the war and all the devastating forces let loose by an ambitious and unscrupulous will', as Isaac Rosenberg put it in one of his last letters before he was killed in 1918. The horror of these devastating forces was experienced in common by many. It is hoped that the reader will agree with Remarque that the repeated descriptions of horror 'represented a part of the inner experience-life confronting Death. ' inventory #13964.
